KALIMANTAN SHIELD - image-1

Lot 84 Dα

KALIMANTAN SHIELD

Auction 1103 - overview Brussels
31.01.2018, 14:00 - Art of Africa, the Pacific and the Americas
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €
Result: 42.160 € (incl. premium)

KALIMANTAN SHIELD
Probably central Kalimantan, Indonesia

Cf. Ling Roth, H., "The Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo", London, 1896, p.131, for a related shield now in the British Museum. Another, collected in 1889, and now in the Topenmuseum, is illustrated in Van Zonneveld, A.G., "Traditional Weapons
66 cm. high

Provenance

Property from a Dutch private collection